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WASHINGTON – The US military is weighing shifting a small number of additional troops to northeast Syria as part of ongoing efforts to establish a buffer zone along the Syria-Turkey border, a US defense official tells CNN. The defense official said no decision had been made, and that if any …

ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday it was unacceptable for nuclear-armed states to forbid Ankara from obtaining its own nuclear weapons. “Some countries have nuclear warhead missiles, not one or two. But (they tell us) we can not have them, that I can not accept,” he …

ISTANBUL – Turkey will not allow the United States to delay its plan to set up a “safe zone” in northeast Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said insisting the deal reached with Washington was still the correct step to take. A CNN Turk report on Thursday quoted Erdogan as saying …

ISLAMABAD – Turkey on Sunday urged the United Nations to play a more active role in resolving the persistent dispute over Kashmir as part of its resolutions. In a statement issued in Ankara, the Turkish Foreign Ministry welcomed the consultations held Friday by the UN Security Council on recent developments …

WASHINGTON – Earlier, US President Donald Trump said the White House “is still considering” the possibility of imposing sanctions on Turkey for its purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system, according to Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA). Republicans and Democrats plan to force President Donald Trump to impose …

DAMASCUS – The Syrian government has agreed to a truce deal in the country’s militant-held north-western province of Idlib on condition that a buffer zone is created between army troops and foreign-sponsored terrorists, Press Tv reported Friday. The official Syrian news agency SANA, citing an unidentified military source, announced on …

MOSCOW – Reconnaissance has registered militants in Syria redeploying forces to the southwestern part of the Idlib de-escalation zone gearing up for an offensive, Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff, Colonel General Sergei Rudskoi, told reporters Monday. “Reconnaissance has currently been registering covert redeployment of …

WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump met with Republican senators on Tuesday at the White House to discuss Turkey’s purchase of the Russian air defense system S-400, Anadolu Agency reported on Wednesday. The meeting with 45 Senators, including Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Todd …

ANKARA – The US special envoy for Syria is in Turkey for talks with Turkish officials over Syria, counter-terrorism and security, the US State Department said Sunday. James Jeffrey, who also serves as the US special envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh, will have meetings on Monday and …

ANKARA – Turkey on Thursday launched an airstrike against Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the assassination of a Turkish diplomat in the region, AFP quoted the Minister of National Defense on Friday. The Turkish Vice-Consul in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq was shot dead Wednesday in Irbil, the local …